#ravens

Hello Mastodon! I'm pretty new here, so here's a little about me: I'm publishing a fantasy novel next year, I love art and nature, and I love birds. I have two African ravens that keep me company: Hugin with his beautiful smokey chest, and Munin in all her sleek black awesomeness. I'll be posting more about my writing, art, and birds. #birds #art #writing #fiction #books #nature #ravens #munin #hugin #artists #introduction #hello

Caught up with the timeline; do I have this right? The #Jets are respectable, the #Saints are respectable, the NFC North is not, the #Eagles and #Ravens are questionable, the #Texans and #Steelers are bad, and the #Falcons are monstrously bad.

Gahhh look who's back! I'm so in love, OMG. 🫠🥰 I’ve been away dogsitting for a week and wondered if that would be the end of it, but NOPE. 🖤✨ This friend flew from the tallest redwood to the East, circled me, and then, when I held up a handful of walnuts, landed in the redwood right by the deck and peeked around to watch me lay out nine nuts. They did the water-dunking thing again, too: dropped a couple of the nuts in the birdbath before eating them. I just tried it and can’t tell what the difference might be. Maybe they just like them wet. The parents chatted with me from their Western hangout somewhere in the middle distance, apparently fine with us becoming so chummy. This could be a friend for life. Time for a name soon, I think, maybe to do with the dunking. Dunker? Fisher? I wonder if there's a way to tell if they're male or female, or if I'll suss it out in communication or just stick with they/them. Anybody know if there’s a way to determine a raven’s sex at a glance? #ravens #ornithology

Cool crow* thing that happened the other day, and which I just remembered: So the backstory is that sometimes the crows (ravens) like to nick off with our chooks' eggs, and honestly I'm OK with it because I love how cheeky and clever they are, and they don't take many eggs. The other thing you should know is that our chooks are free-range-ish in a fenced off section of the garden, which (for now) is secure around the edge but open to the sky. It's a few weeks until the chooks will start laying but the crows live around our area and I often will say hello to them when we're out walking. And then the other day, we were walking up the street towards our house and I saw a bird gliding high up above and I thought it was a pelican, but then I saw the silhouette of the head and realised it was a hawk! And then! a crow/raven appears from the right, and not only starts harassing the hawk, but also caw-caw-caaawing to its family members, and they are on the job straight away, and within seconds, the hawk has left the vicinity of our chooks and the crows see it off -- we could almost hear them saying, 'And stay out!' I'm thinking that the crows were protecting our chooks -- not because they care about the chooks themselves, so much as they care about the eggs the chooks will start laying soon! Crows. So great :) *apparently the ones around here are ravens, but they seem to not care that I call them crows #crows #ravens #birds #ThingsILove

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social The pattern of double checked locking won't help to get Hormuz unblocking. If you do refrain from using your brain, the ravens will always keep mocking. #limerick #catch22 #kafka #ravens #AI